'Horse lasagne' sparks new UK food scare.

BRITISH authorities have warned the public not to eat beef lasagne sold by the Findus brand and made in France after tests found it contained up
to 100 per cent horse meat. In the latest in a string of food scares in Britain, the Food Standards Agency said that "criminal activity" was likely to
blame and ordered further tests on the meat for a veterinary drug.

Findus tested 18 of its beef lasagne products manufactured by supplier Comigel in France and found 11 meals containing 60 per cent to 100 per cent
horse meat, the agency said.

I just came across this article on
News.com.au and had to
share!
I sometimes wonder what type of meat is in the pies, curries or burgers I eat! Mince is something that we cook with all the time in Australia and the
vast majority of it would be beef. But I've heard more and more sotires lately about food that people think is beef yet turns out to be
Horse!

I really hope I haven't been a blind victim of hidden Horse in my meals!

The spokesman added that "fully compliant beef lasagne will be in stores again soon."

I don't think I could ever buy that brand of lasagne again after knowing there were traces of between 60% and 100% horse meat in each one tested.....

Would you knowingly eat Horse meat? I've eaten Kangaroo, Crocodile and Emu willingly before. I'd actually buy Kangaroo again, it was a really nice
steak! They do sell them normally in supermarkets just like you'd buy Pork, Beef or Chicken!

According to NutritionData, the strip steak has slightly fewer calories than horse (117 vs 133 calories per 100 grams), though this is obviously not
be true for all cuts of beef. Sirloin, for example, contains 142 calories. The meats also have very similar amounts of fat, cholesterol and protein
when lean cuts are compared.

Where the meats really differ is iron concentration, with horse meat having double the iron (21% vs 10% DV) that beef contains. It is not surprising
that a more athletic animal has more iron, but the magnitude of the difference is striking. Horse meat also contains substantially more vitamin B12
(50% vs 21% DV), but less B6, niacin and folate.

But what's truly impressive is the omega-3 fatty acid concentration in horse meat, which contains 360 mg (per 100 grams) compared to just 21 mg in
strip steak. Omega-3s are essential fatty acids that need to be obtained from your diet. They are thought to be helpful in fighting against heart
disease, stroke and neurodegeneration.

Compared to lean beef, horse meat appears to have some nutritional advantages. If we do ever manage to get past the taboo, at least we know there's
good nutrition on the other side.

Well, as I said in another reply- people eat cats! So, meat is meat... I guess.

It's just the idea of not knowing what you're actually injesting! I stay clear away from fast food meals and in my OP I mentioned burgers etc- but
these are ones made from scratch at home using beef (or I hope it's beef!) mince purchassed from the butcher.

Kangaroo meat is produced from wild animals mainly.[2][3] Both the meat and the hides are sold. Although most species of macropod are protected
from hunting by law, a small number of the large-sized species which exist in high numbers can be hunted by commercial hunters.

Horse Meat is safe to eat, it's just the drugs used on horses in the meat aren't good for you.

Saudi Arabia was getting questionable meat like this and feeding it to our GI's in 1994. Atleast we HOPE it was horse meat....could have been
something far worse. They wouldn't tell America where it was from or what it even was.

On the radio coming into work early this morning, they were still talking about this and using the word "contaminated". WHAT? FFS... 60-100% horse
meat in a "Beef" product is described as "contamination"? What are they smoking?

I think though that the shadow environment minister (I think that was her position) was spot on when she asked why no serious police investigation has
been launched into this matter.
Yeah, I know, it's still meat and nobody probably got sick from eating it, but it is still fraudulent. The big food suppliers and supermarkets have
covered this up either through deliberate negligence or slack quality checks on their suppliers. If I want to eat horse, then I'll damn well eat
horse, but I don't expect to order beef and get horse instead.
I suspect the horse meat was from areas where culling of feral horses, or quite possibly theft of horses and subsequent slaughter, has been carried
out as a criminal enterprise and some people have been making a tidy sum from selling on the meat.

Jeebus! If it's not the banks screwing us fraudulently, it's the government, or the corporations. Money drives everything now and as a consequence
we are all getting shafted, in some cases potentially with harmful products mislabeled deliberately, but it's all fine and dandy as long as there is
profit to be made.

Because its advertised as beef. Why are some struggling to grasp this concept? Horse could be the tastiest healthiest meet ever, but when your being
told your getting beef, you expect beef not horse. If dog and cat were tasty and healthy, would you not mind them being used instead f beef without
your knowledge?

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